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Booking an 11 day cruise up the Norwegian coast in January seemed like a great adventure. But to be honest, neither of us were quite sure how it was going to work out. We just couldn’t imagine what our first cruise together was going to be like. We have spent the last 6 days going

After all our gadding about in recent days we thought a quiet day was called for today. I explored the intricacies of  the Montenegrin washing machine and James stitched a new patch on his famous hat. Then we set out to walk into Kotor, we thought it easier than driving and parking the car. Only

One of James’ favourite sayings is “Why let the truth spoil a good story”. And this is certainly true of the gorgeous Croatian island town of Korcula. Their big claim to fame is that Marco Polo was born here. But when you do some further research you come across wonderfully ambiguous statements like “Polo is reputed

One of the unexpected bonuses of housesitting is testing driving other people’s home appliances. In less than a year we have become au fait with a variety of ovens, microwaves, vacuum cleaners, washing machines and the bane of James life coffee machines. And let us not forget the entire minefield of all things television; Foxtel, Netflicks

I have a bit of a habit of doing things on my birthday. Spectacular things that is. And they don’t come more spectacular than climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Well not in my book they don’t! My faithfully buddy in crime, James, was invited of course. Can’t do something like this on my own, and

    Don’t be fooled, we are not in Cambodia yet! But we are looking forward, finally. After months of planning, selling and packing up our old lives, we are off. How do we feel about it all? I couldn’t honestly say, neither of us can really believe it has happened. On our final celebratory

We both love the stories we hear when we travel. From locals, from fellow travellers and then the ones we create ourselves along the way. Over the years of running our B&B we found that old adage, everyone has a story, to be true so many times. Yet we hadn’t really expected it when we

Six months ago when we made the decision to sell our home and business to travel, we had very fixed ideas. Very fixed ideas on who was going to sell it and who was going to buy it. Were we right? read on and find out! Fixed Idea A. Our first assumption was that a

Alaska is truly the last frontier. It lived up to every dream we held for it and then some. As always when we travel we like to share a few tips with you that we learnt along the way! My Tips You will need to get yourself an ESTA, an American Visa. You can apply

Six hours sailing on the Alaskan Marine Highway ferry from the busy port of Ketchikan brings us to Wrangell. A laid back little town of just over 2,000, where the locals stop whenever you go to cross the road. Not because it is law but because “you should never be in that much of a

As the jet noses through the clouds we are afforded our first sight of Alaska.  The scene is one of pine trees hugging a rugged coastline and calm steel grey water. If I crane my neck I can see through the opposite window the first houses of Ketchikan. Wooden houses, some log cabins, some grand

Making the decision to radically change our lives was one thing, verbalising it was quite another. Up until that point we could have backed out and not lost credibility. But thanks to the wonderful world of social media once we had put the story out there, we didn’t have to wait long for the reactions to